Hi, I'm a total newbie in Python, but did give quite a try to the documentation before coming here. Sorry if I missed the obvious.
The Tutorial says about the "for line in f" idiom that it is "space- efficient". Short of further explanation, I interpret this as "doesn't read the whole file before spitting out lines". In other words, I would say "lazy". Which would be a Good Thing, a much nicer idiom than the usual while loop calling readline()... But when I use it on the standard input, be it the tty or a pipe, it seems to wait for EOF before yielding the first line. So, is it lazy or not ? Is there some external condition that may trigger one behavior or the other ? If not, why is it said "space efficient" ? TIA, -Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
